SAP HANA - BIG DATA

SAP HANA - DATABASE Future Redefined

SAP HANA - It is the next generation SAP's IMDB (In Memory Database) Technology. An In- Memory Appliance that combines Software and Hardware Components to provide power to crunch BIG DATA Challenges.

SAP has partnered with major hardware vendors across the globe to come up with this Ground Breaking yet Non-Disruptive technology. These include IBM, HP, Dell,  Fujitsu, NEC, CISCO, Hitachi etc. These certified Hardware Partners ensure that this technology is harnessed to it's maximum potential with their high quality hardware. To leverage the full power from this technology one needs to get in touch with these vendors to get their hands on a SAP certified HANA Box. The HANA box has the SAP HANA Database fully deployed over optimized hardware to ensure you get started as you receive the HANA box. The HANA Box runs on Suse Linux  Enterprise Server (SLES) 11 SP1 Operating System. This operating system comes along with the HANA BOX, fully deployed , ready to use. The HANA Box is well equipped to process massive volumes of transactional data in real time to provide with a clear insight into the performance of various business Initiatives. The HANA Box also has the HANA studio which provides the capability of  Data Modelling, Deploying Security Policies, Data and Life Cycle Management to the user.

Real Time Business Analytics is a bi-product of this technology. Business Owners across the globe can expect to have Real Time Analytics and Speedy Growth to achieve their breakthrough targets.

The HANA Database is a hybrid in-memory database which leverages it's power by combining row based, coloumn based and object based technology to provide optimum performance environment. Queries run much faster in this database as compared to the traditional Databases. Big Data is the challenge the world faces today with data growing at enormous speeds. SAP HANA leverages the current hardware to solve this problem.

SAP HANA has a number of reasons behind it's Success:

1.  Reducing Costs of Main Memory RAM chips. Main Memory is not expensive as it used to be. Currently HANA is equpped with 8TB Ram Chips.(Supporting 40TB of DATA)

2.  With the advent of Multi Core Processors, the processing power has grown multiple folds today. Hard Drive technology is not well equipped to take up this challenge. We currently have 80 Core processor chips available today. 128 Cores on a single Chip are in the pipeline right now. Intel has plans to come out with them by next year.

3. Multi Engine Query Processing Environments.

4. HANA has the ability to combine row based and column based storage of data to optimize performance.

5. HANA DB is equipped with high compression techniques. It uses a combination of compression  techniques to achieve compression of the order of 20:1 (Check my next post).

6. HANA DB is 100% ACID Compliant.

    (A - Atomicity, C- Consistency, I- Isolation, D- Durability)

Check this Link for more Info: http://www.sap.com/uk/hana/index.epx